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ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL 



Office of the Postmaster General, 



Washington, Nov. 27, 1912. 

 Order No. 6675. 



Paragraph S, Section 496, Postal Laws and Regulations, is hereby amended as 

 follows: 



8. Nursery stock, including all field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, 

 cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees 

 or shrubs, and oth.er plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vege- 

 table, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots, 

 may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a certificate from a State 

 or Government inspector to the effect that the nursery from which such nursery stock 

 is shipped has been inspected within a year and found free from injurious insects, 

 and the parcel containing such nursery stock is plainly marked to show the nature 

 of the contents and the name and address of the sender. 



Frank H. Hitchcock, 



Poslmasler General. 



ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL 



Office of the Postmaster General, 



Washington, Dec. 4, 1912. 

 Order No. 6696. 



Paragraph 1, Section 549, Postal Laws and Regulations, is amended as follows: 

 Provided, That on written request, postmasters at offices of address may furnish 

 a State officer of any State having a law regarding the inspection of nursery stock 

 coming into the State the names of persons to whom are addressed parcels of nursery 

 stock received from any point without the State, marked as provided in paragraph 

 8, Section 496; but there shall be no delay in the delivery of such nursery stock to the 

 addressees. 



Frank H. Hitchcock, 



Postmaster General. 



TWO NEW COCCIDiE 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL 



A New Coccid from the Philippine Islands 



Drosicha lichenoides n. sp. 9 . Length 12 mm. or a little over, breadth 8.5, 

 height 5; light reddish; strongly emarginate anteriorly; smooth above, with the seg- 

 mentation distinct; legs and antennae very dark brown; antennae about as long as 

 anterior femur +trochanter. Microscopic characters (measurements all in microns): 

 eyes on prominent tubercles; antennae 9-jointed, the third joint slightly constricted 

 before the middle, the last joint long and slender; measurements of joints (1) 240, 

 (2) 240, (3) 336, (4 to 8) each about 320, (9) 590; femora stout; claws strongly 

 curved, the claw digitules represented by a pair of stiff bristles, pointed toward but 

 not reaching end of claw; greatest diameter of femur of middle leg 480; tibia of middle 

 leg 1120 long, with about 12 short spines on inner margin; tarsus of same leg (exclud- 



